Female municipal employees in Kabul are told to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by a man.
The new Taliban mayor of Afghanistan, Hamdullah Nomany, says the Taliban “found it necessary to stop women from working for a while”.
In the latest round of restrictions placed on women, the group has shut down the women’s affair ministry and replaced it with a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice”.
On Sunday, small protests were held outside the women’s affairs ministry while another group of women held a press conference demanding their rights.